Last November, nearly 60 percent of Maine voters elected to expand Medicaid so that an additional 70,000 Mainers could have health insurance. These are working people who cannot afford private health insurance – working people who earn up to $16,753 for an individual and $34,638 for a family of four (not a lot of money by any stretch). Why have we said "no thanks" to the federal government when they offered to pay 90 percent of the expansion (about $500 million) that would provide this insurance, not to mention support for our cash-strapped rural hospitals? It can't be lack... [Read More]

The number of jobs in the U.S. solar industry dropped by 3.2 percent in 2018, a second year of losses, as the Trump administration's tariffs on foreign panels and state-level policy changes hit demand for installations, according to an industry report released on Tuesday. [Read More]

Washington and its allies have stepped up political and economic pressure on the Latin American country in recent months, with a recent think tank report concluding that the US financial blockade of the country has cost Caracas up to $350 billion in economic losses over the last half-decade. [Read More]

Rome demands that a new presidential election be held in Venezuela because it believes that the 2018 victory of President Nicolas Maduro "lacked democratic legitimacy," the Italian foreign minister Milanesi said on Tuesday. [Read More]

Cannabis producer Aurora Cannabis beat on the top line. The company said its margins were lower as production costs jumped and prices fell. It reiterated its guidance of achieving positive EBITDA beginning in the second quarter of calendar 2019 (its fiscal Q4). Watch Aurora Cannabis trade live. Cannabis producer Aurora Cannabis dropped 2.51% to $6.99 per share early Tuesday after reporting lower second-quarter margins as production costs jumped and prices fell. The company on Monday said it generated 54.2 million Canadian dollars ($40.9 million) in sales, which represented a 363% rise from the prior... [Read More]

Carta CEO Henry Ward has learned his fair share about venture capital fundraising after scoring nearly $150 million for his equity management software company. Today, as a way of "paying it forward," Ward helps coach early-stage founders. Below are three concepts Ward believes entrepreneurs need to better understand about raising funding at the seed stage, when you're just getting your very first funding. Carta CEO Henry Ward has learned his fair share about fundraising for venture capital. To date, his equity management software company Carta has raised nearly $150 million, from its seed... [Read More]

Haggis, the national dish of Scotland, is a savory meat pudding made with sheep organs. The delicacy is banned in the US, so we went to Scotland to try it...on ice cream. Mackie's 19.2 ice cream parlor in Marischal Square, Aberdeen serves up unusual flavors — including one topped with haggis and marmalade. Alongside waffles and sundaes, they serve 725,000 ice cream flavor combinations. Mackie's farm holds 330 cows and produces over 13 million liters of ice cream a year. Mackie's 19.2 in central Aberdeen serves a host of unusual ice cream flavors. In... [Read More]

First Light Farms, a small New Zealand-based company, is shaking up the American beef industry with a simple business goal: produce the best quality beef in the world – without compromising the environment, farmers, animals, and most importantly, you. Here's a look behind their incredible story. [Read More]

From cheaper shoulder season rates and less crowds to fields of blooming flowers and well-manicured vineyards, each of these places offers something particularly special to offer you this spring. [Read More]

Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who rocketed to the national spotlight when his Congresswoman wife Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he's running to finish John McCain's last term in the U.S. Senate.Kelly is a top Democratic recruit to take on Republican Martha McSally in one of the most closely contested Senate races of the 2020 election. ... [Read More]

Severe weather is expected to stretch from coast to coast Tuesday, with more than 100 million people under some sort of winter watch, warning or advisory; nearly 25 million people under threat of flooding; and more snow on the way in Seattle. [Read More]